LONGMONT -- The man accused of shooting at a Longmont police officer in May has been arrested on suspicion of attempt to commit first-degree murder. The bond for Jonathan Shank has been set at $10 million.

The 28-year-old Longmont man remains in a secured treatment unit at Denver Health, recovering from wounds he received when Officer Brent Cairns returned fire in the incident, which happened in the early morning hours of May 22.

Shank will make his first court appearance at 2 p.m. Monday at the Boulder County Jail, according to Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur.

"We have not physically laid hands on him," Satur said. "(But) we served the arrest warrant and this will allow the criminal court proceeding to be added to the docket and some of these other things to proceed."

On Thursday, the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender filed several motions in Boulder District Court, seeking items of discovery and requesting that a bond be set for Shanks, who had been lodged at Denver Health for several weeks but had not been arrested. Those filings precipitated Friday's arrest, Satur said.

Cairns, who was not injured in the incident, saw Shank driving without his headlights about 2:10 a.m. May 22. After Cairns pulled him over in a parking lot at 210 Ken Pratt Blvd., Shank got out of his car and started firing his Bushmaster AR-15 rifle at Cairns, according to reports. In just over a minute, 35 rounds were fired between the two, according to the investigation. Cairns hit Shank at least three times with his return fire.

Shank had a blood alcohol level of .311, more than three times the legal limit, according to reports.

The Boulder County Critical Incident Investigations Team, made up of detectives from several departments, investigated the shooting. Cairns was cleared of any wrongdoing and has been back on the job for a couple of weeks now, Satur said.

According to Boulder County Jail Division Chief Bruce Haas, Shank has been housed in the secure unit at Denver Health for the past several weeks. It's similar to a typical hospital ward, Haas said, except the patients are under armed guard.

Haas said Boulder County will be responsible for transferring Shank from Denver Health to the jail for his court appearance and then back to Denver Health. The county typically handles such transfers for municipalities in the county because of their experience in doing so, he said.

Denver Health has said that Shank has recovered enough from his wounds that he will be able to attend court proceedings, as long as he is accompanied by paramedics.

A spokeswoman for the District Attorney's office could not confirm that $10 million was a record high bond amount for Boulder County.

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